Showing posts with label Ranville War Cemetery. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Ranville War Cemetery. Show all posts

4 July 2010

226175 Capt Philip L Tilley, RAC

226175 Captain Philip Lewis Tilley of the Royal Armoured Corps, died on the 4th July 1945. He was born in Somerset and was living in Wiltshire when he enlisted. He originally joined the Royal Gloucestershire Hussars and was attached to the Headquarters of XXXIII Corps, RAC at the time of his death. Philip Tilley was 33 years old and the son of Arthur Herbert and Edith Anna Tilley. He is buried in Rangoon War Cemetery in Burma.

At the going down of the sun, and in the morning, WE WILL REMEMBER THEM.

Sources:

Ancestry (UK Army Roll of Honour 1939-1945)
The Commonwealth War Graves Commission

9 June 2010

408550 Pte William Clouston, Parachute Regt

D-Day + 3. Another 248 men died on the 9th June 1944 and 408550 Private William Clouston of the Parachute Regiment (South Lancashire Regiment, Prince of Wales' Volunteers)was one of those men. He had originally enlisted in the Royal Armoured Corps (14th/20th King's Hussars) and later transferred to the Paras. He was born in Clackmannanshire and died in France. He was 28 years old, the son of James and Marion Clouston of Coalsnaughton, Clackmannanshire. He is buried in Ranville War Cemetery.

At the going down of the sun, and in the morning, WE WILL REMEMBER THEM.

Sources:

Ancestry (UK Army Roll of Honour 1939-1945)
The Commonwealth War Graves Commission